chap. xrr. j 
FISH AND FISHING. 
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of the floating reeds were arranged to prevent the 
possibility of a large fish entering the open water ad¬ 
joining the shore without being trapped. A regular 
system of baskets were fixed at intervals, with guiding 
fences to their mouths. Each basket was about six 
feet in diameter, and the mouth about eighteen inches ; 
thus the arrangements were for the monsters of the 
lake, the large bones of which, strewed about the 
vicinity, were a witness of their size. My men had 
THE BAGGERA. 
just secured the half of a splendid fish, known in the 
Nile as the “baggera.” They had found it in the 
water, the other portion having been bitten off by a 
crocodile. The piece in their possession weighed about 
fifty pounds. This is one of the best fish in the lake. 
It is shaped like the perch, but is coloured externally 
' LEPIDOSIREN ANNECTEUS. 
like the salmon. I also obtained from the natives an 
exceedingly good fish, of a peculiar form, having four 
long feelers at the positions that would be occupied by 
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